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Pages 321-360 plus xx pages of ads. Features: Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden - The Seat and Canopy in the Garden Wall, plus color cover photo of her garden; Notable American Gardens - Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden at Beverly Cove, MA; Historic Mansions of the James River - I - "Martin's Brandon," the Home of the Harrisons (including one-page photo of front entrance pocked with civil war bullet holes; Wonders of the Gourd Vine; Curtains and Draperies; The Wild Garden - a Plea for our Native Plants; An Old Brick House of Interesting Form at Wellesley Hills, MA - built for E.H. Fay, Esq.; The Summer Home of Thomas Nash, Esq., at East Hampton, Long Island; Something Concerning Driveways; The House of J.J. Storrow, Esq., Lincoln, MA; New Ant Lore; Great one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. and its porcelain enameled ware; Photo ad for Flandrau & Co., maker of Automobile Bodies and Carriages; One-page illustrated ad for Chickering & Sons pianos; Charming back cover two-color photo ad for Lenox Chocolates / Necco Sweets made by the New England Confectionary Co.; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers very slightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Detailed account of raids and losses, with bibliography and year-by-year crash list for the county.
Folio, drop-head title, docket title, some browning of the text, 4pp., disbound. The land in Essex was to be sold to Sir Fisher Tench of Low Laiton. With the proceeds the Mayor and aldermen of the City of Lincoln were to buy an estate in Bardney, seven miles from Lincoln, and with the residue purchase other lands near Lincoln from which the poor in the two parishes of St. Swithin and Eastgate will benefit by fifty pounds a year. British Library and Bodleian Library copies only on the ESTC.
pp. 398, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Portrait Frontis. XLib. Large 12mo. Original full red buckram binding, lettered in gold. Remnants of library call numbers on spine. Hardbound. First edition of this volume in the American Reformers Series. SHELF W24
84 pages. Features: Niagara Falls "Maid of the Mist" cover photo; Slum Clearance is a Hoax; Robert Kennedy and the Liberals; Out to Launch; See America First; The Killer That Stalks the Newborn - deadly respiratory disease kills 25,000 per year; My Twelve Years With Kennedy - The Presidential Years - by his personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Actress Jean Simmons - The Mouse Becomes a Cat - color photos with article; Will Snick Overcome? - photo-illustrated article on the wildest of civil-rights groups which teaches its poorest Negroes to challenge whites. Fiction: Peace; The Gaudiest Thing on Wheels. Ads: Lucky Strike ad inside front cover features photo of man with bite out of his hat; Bell Telephone ad features photos of Carol Ann Pagano of New York City; General Electric Appliances; Nice two-page Volkswagen ad shows race car trailing a Beetle; Dial Soap; Rexall Sweepstakes; Nice color ad for the 1965 Ford Pickups with Twin I Beam independent suspension; Masterpiece cigarettes; Phillies Cheroots Cigars; Color-photo centerfold ad for Firestone features Indianapolis 500 photo; Flying A Service; National LP-Gas; Interesting one-page ad encouraging motorists to use seatbelts (before shoulder straps came into use); Tab soda - very nice one-page color photo ad inside back cover shows mom on beach with young son; Viceroy cigarette ad on back cover is color photo of an evening weenie roast on the beach. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
38 p. PAMPHLET Very good condition
Ohio State University Press 1966, 245 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: SEGNI DEL TEMPO E QUALCHE PICCOLO TAGLIO ALLA SOVRACCOPERTA, PER IL RESTO INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO William Dean Howells (Martins Ferry, 1º marzo 1837 – New York, 11 maggio 1920) è stato uno scrittore e critico letterario statunitense. Parole e frasi comuni action alienation American anatomy Annie Kilburn Arbuton artist Atherton attack Bartley Hubbard Bartley's Beaton Bittridge bondage Boston Brahmin Cady Chance Acquaintance confusion Conrad contributor Corey create criticism Day's Pleasure demonic device discussion drama Dream Dryfoos effect epiphanies episode evil example exemplum existence existential feelings fiction force Fortunes Fulkerson girl grotesque Halleck Hannah Morrison Hazard helpless Howells characters novel world Howellsian human humor ideas Jeff Durgin Kentons Kitty Landlord Lion's later Lindau Lion's Head literary look major Marcia Margaret Vance Melville method mind Moby-Dick Modern Instance mood moral mystery Negativity narrator nature novelist observer perception qualities reader realism reality realize reveals Rise of Silas romantic Royal Langbrith satire scene sense Silas Lapham situation social style Suburban Sketches surface symbolic things tradition Traveler Altruria Twelvemough vision W. D. Howells Wedding Journey Westover whimsy William Dean Howells York young Soggetti: William Dean Howells, essayists, American dramatists and playwrights, Literary Criticism and interpretation, Fantastic Literature, Critici letterari statunitensi, Scrittori statunitensi del XIX secolo, Fantascienza, Abraham Lincoln, Realismo, Mark Twain, Their Wedding Journey, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Annie Kilburn, A Hazard of New Fortunes, Criticism, Fiction, Seen and Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon: A Fantasy, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Christmas Every Day, The Atlantic Monthly, realist novelist, Bibliography, History, Letteratura americana contemporanea, Saggi, opere generali, Classici, Libri vintage, Drammaturghi statunitensi, Critica letteraria, Drammaturgia
64 pages. Features Gross's great song Shannon. Photos of Henry Gross in color and black and white. Other songs include: Juke Box Song; Lincoln Road; Overton Square; Springtime Mama; Moonshine Alley; One Last Time; Something In Between; Someday; Pokey. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
58 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The State Street Mall - what, where and why; Daniel (Dan) Hudson ("Make No Little Plans") Burnham - the man who got things done; Beneath the Planet is Where the Apes Are - Lincoln Park Zoo's new ape house will be built underground; Directory of Architects licensed in Illinois; Commonwealth Edison ad features photo of Ed Steeve and Carl Knutson with vacuum chamber weld tester; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Excellent cover photo of Premier Ernest Manning in front of the Alberta Legislature Building; Nice colour photo ad for 1965 Mercury Park Lane convertible; Big Canadian Push to Analyze Easter Island before civilization spoils the place; Why Canadians are practically the only diplomats that Washington trusts; How Sault Ste. Marie built the biggest little medicare scheme in Canada; Britain issues booklet "Treachery Is Their Trade" as required reading for civil servants vulnerable to attacks by Soviet spies; Editorial - Let's make friends, not enemies, with the mainland Chinese; How Arthur Hailey turned Reporter in Manning's Alberta; Ordeal by Rumor - The Skeletons in (Ernest) Manning's Cabinet, by Arthur Hailey - long, informative article including photos of cabinet ministers under clouds; Is the Family Doctor Vanishing?, by Claude P. Gendron, MD; How I Found Out the Toronto Argonauts Don't Really Lose Games on Purpose, by Peter N. Allison; Canada's 1967 Centennial celebration preparations - Will we be late for our own birthday parth? - a 'non'-progress report by Hal Tennant; When Mama Cooked Solomon Grundy, by Helen Wilson; The Killer That Could be Hiding in your car - Ray Stapley warns of the danger of metal fatigue in autos; The Many Worlds of Soviet Russia - Kenneth Bagnell reports on his five weeks in Russia, traveling from Moscow to Siberia to Central Asia; Nice colour-illustrated ad for the 1965 Ford Mustang Hardtop; Magnificent colour photo ad for the Lincoln Continental - featuring a white model with suicide doors; Nice colour-illustrated ad for the 1965 Ford Galaxie 500/XL Convertible (red); How Talk Show Host Pat Burns Won Fame and Fortune by Talking on the World's Biggest Party Line (CJOR) - article with photo; Quebec censor board censors La Terre a Boire; John Bradshaw - the man who got rich by making gardening sound easy; Colour photo ad for Coke on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
20p.,frontis. Hardcover Ex-Library in good condition
96 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Lincoln cars features a red four-door with suicide doors; One-page color ad promotes Florida vacations; Classy color one-page ad for Mallory Hats; One-page photo ad for North American Aviation Inc. features their Navion 4-passenger plane; Hoover - "U.S. Communists are better organized than any fifth column Hitler had."; Senator Claude Pepper; Hawaii - struggle for control; Centralia Coal Co. Mine disaster at Wamac, Illinois; Attractive Coke ad shows three young office ladies eating their lunches in office; Color Camel cigarette ad features champion fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead of Georgia; British prepare to turn Palestine over to the United Nations; Awesome one-page color Chevrolet ad features big chrome grill over flat black background; The French Four-Year Plan; Where are the POWS? - Two million missing Germans captured by the Soviets; Disastrous food situation in the Ruhr; Finnish physiotherapist Dr. Felix Kersten releases his analysis and observations of Himmler's personality; Color ad for 1947 Ford cars; Violence in Formosa; Photos of Australian girls bidding farewell to American sailors on the Wooloomooloo wharf in Sydney; Communism in Franc - illusions and realities; Jeep ad shows it doing utility jobs; Brief obituaries for Johnny Evers, Charles S. Whitman and Edith Craig; Examining Hiroshima victims 16 months later; Uranium 233; Barbara Ward - First Lady of the Economist; Airlines - Eddie Rickenbacker of Eastern; Photo of Horace T. Pentecost and his one-man "Hoppi-Copter" helicopter; Glorious color ad for Chrysler cars at apple blossom time; Henry Hazlitt writes on High Taxes vs. Incentive and Revenue; Photo of world record swimmer Joe Verdeur; Wonderfully-illustrated Fruehauf Trailers ad features the Minnehaha natural spring water and their loading docks on wheels; Erich Leinsdorf; Nice two-page ad for Newsweek; Nice color ad for Venus drawing pencils; Color-photo ad for Corby's whiskey; Nostalgic ad for P.I.E. - Pacific Intermountain Express (truck lines); Color-photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Age-toning to contents. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Nine pamphlets, relating to Abraham Lincoln. 8vo. EMANUEL HERTZ (1870-1940), U.S. lawyer and historian, was born in Bukta, Austria, brother of Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz. He, arrived in the United States when he was 14, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. Hertz became well known as an authority on Abraham Lincoln. He assembled the largest private collection of material relating to Lincoln, and was said to have gathered 4,000 items previously unknown. He wrote many pamphlets and books on various aspects of the life of Lincoln. He was a substantial benefactor of the Library of Congress and the National and Hebrew University Library, Jerusalem. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 1
80 pages. Contents: The Apprentice Assassin; The Well-Adjusted Husband; The Girl Who Did Everything Wrong; Showdown in Death Canyon; I'm Always Surprising Myself; The Face of America - The Young Rocketeers (2 page colour photo); I Played (Baseball) Without Eating - Bob Cerv of the Kansas City Athletics played 28 games with a broken jaw!; Mr. Astor Outfits the Army - with several old black and white photos; Colossus on Broadway - The Story behind the $75 million effort to establish New York's new Lincoln Center project; This Dirt is Worth Millions - Powerful U.S. aluminum companies encountered many problems when they undertook to mine the valuable bauxite on the racially complex island of Jamaica; I Married Murder;. Above-average but not excessive wear. One by two inch chip from bottom edge of back cover which features colour ad for Camel cigarettes. Binding intact. Worthy copy. Book
4to., First Edition, 4pp., on laid paper, with coloured illustration mounted on second leaf; covers lightly dust-soiled, a few short closed tears at edges, else a crisp copy. This 4pp pamphlet sets out the historical context of the City's Royal Charter. The coloured illustration depicts the civic insignia. A very scarce survival. Short 2291.
Mm 125x200 Collana "Cultura e Società" - 2 volumi nella loro brossura originale, vol. 1°, 1765-1865, di 510 pagine; vol. 2°, 1864-1957, di 557 pagine. Opera in buone-ottime condizioni, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Mm 125x200 Collana "Cultura e Società" - Brossura originale, 510 pagine ancora intonse. Timbro di biblioteca privata dismessa al frontespizio, peraltro copia in perfetto stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
pp. 544, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Engraved Portrait Frontis and full page engraved plates. Offsetting on title page. Marbled endpapers. XLib bookplates on front paste down. All edges marbled. Large 8vo. Original three quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised bands. Binding somewhat rubbed and worn. Lacks leather spine labels. Remnants of library call numbers. Hardbound. Good +. Useful early biography of Lincoln. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SHELF W24
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original pictorial buckram lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy. Lincoln Record Society, vol. 47.
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 160 pages with photos and illustrations,
120 pages. Short Stories: Doomsday and Mr. Lincoln; Forbidden Zone; The Imaginary Heir; Marry the Boss' Daughter. Articles: Bright Young Boss of Princeton - Bob Goheen; Adventures of the Mind - 25 - How War began; Color-photo feature on the North Atlantic island of St. Pierre; Hectic Home of the Los Angeles (L.A.) Dodgers - Los Angeles Coliseum; Medicine's Legal Nightmare, Part 2, Doctors in Court; Making a Man Out of Charlie - great photo-illustrated article on 10-year-old Prince Charles; D Day, conclusion, Beachhead Established. Serials: The Dark Road (part 2 of 6); Comanche Captives (part 6 of 7). Ads: GE and Philco fridges; Bufferin; GE Appliances; Northern tissue; Lark Play Wagon (baby blue) by Studebaker; NAPA parts; Coffeematic by Universal; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Pontiac (orange); Betty Crocker / Sunkist "Mystery Lemon Pie Contest"; Western Auto; Arrow Shirts; Ford Cars - featuring a blue Country Sedan station wagon in fishing/camping scene; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli; Benny Goodman is prominently featured in a Texaco ad; Centerfold Texaco color-photo ad; Karo Syrup; Band-Aid; Packard Bell TVs; Gulf - super color night photo of Corvette (?) filling up; Admiral fridges; Foremost 'Big Dip' Ice Milk; Canada Tourism; Cushman 780 Truckster; Hammond organs; Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake ad on back cover; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 145-180 + xvi ads. Features: Home of Mr. Clayton S. Cooper, Fieldston, NY; Maytime Landscape; The Small House of To-Day - with photos of the homes of Mr. S.C. Jackson, Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. F.A. Camp, of Fieldston, NY, Mr. Samuel C. Hyer, of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. J.B. Gembriling of Cynwyd, PA, Mrs. George W. Berrian of Glen Ridge, NJ, Mr. William B. Boggs, of Douglaston Park, NY, Miss M. Vaughn of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. H.S. Worden of Larchmont Gardens, NY, Mr. W.H. Phillips of Beechhurst, Long Island, Mr. Irving Childs of Beechhurst, Long Island, Mr. Hardy of Larchmont Gardens, NY, and Mr. W.J. Reed of Scarsdale, NY; Cosmos (flowers); Native Beauty - photo-illustrated landscaping article; A House with a History - photo-illustrated article on the home of mr. Roland C. Lincoln, near Manchester, MA; The Home Built for Charles A. Purcell, Esq., at River Forest, IL; Centerfold photo-spread of five Small Houses of Attractive Design; Vases From Old Jars - how to do it using oil and a red hot bar of steel!; The English Bulldog; Samplers - nice four-page photo-illustrated article; American Pewter; A Stencilled Bedroom Set; Wicker Bird-Cages; Making Things Cheerful in the Home; One-page illustrated ad for the Western Electric built-in (stationary) vacuum cleaner; The Humble Hamper; Great one-page photo-illustrated ad for W. & J. Sloane, featuring their "Dryad" Cane Furniture; Color back cover ad for 1847 Rogers Bros. cutlery (silver plate); and more. Average wear and external soiling. Modest moisture exposure to bottom and fore-edges of covers and pages. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
92 p., illus. With an Introduction by S. N. Behrman. Hardcover Very good condition good
Book in mint unread condition. 171pp. This issues features Lincoln as realist and revolutionist, William Gaddis's sophistication, What is living and what is dead in Existentialism, Stll enlightening after all these years, Walter Benjamin remembered, Hannah Arendt and the uses of literature, path wisdom, Culture wars and the humanities in the age of neoliberalism, Carlton Pearson the savior of all human beings, Boring Howells, Killer Putin and American exceptionalism plus poems from a few authors. Very scarce in the UK.
Vol "4"di collana. Traduzione di Ginetta Pignolo. A cura di Carlo Fruttero e Franco Lucentini. Rilegato editoriale in cartone rigido blu con titolo ed autore in bianco sul dorso. Sovraccopertina in carta lucida, illustrata con segni di uso e tempo, macchie di umidità sul dorso. Pagine imbrunite con illustrazioni fuori testo su carta patinata. Numero pagine 329. USATO
